Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal freedom, has turned to dread. Cocaine, the glamour dust of the late '70s -- fast, clean, fun! -- has been boiled down to hard and mean little pellets of crack, giver of euphoria, taker of lives. To a nation that espouses self-reliance, drug dependence has emerged as the dark side of the American character, the price of freedom to fail. It is as if America, so vain and self-consciously fit, has looked upon itself and suddenly seen the hideously consumptive portrait of Dorian Gray...
Slowly the dark side emerged. San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the communal temple of flower power, became a seedy slum of strung-out addicts. Heroin sent urban crime soaring as addicts stole to sustain their habits. For many college students, LSD became a bad trip...
...with a year's worth of surplus wheat. The harvest of the new wheat crop is almost finished, and it is a whopper: 2.2 billion bu. Providence seems to be pushing us toward some rendezvous with disaster. The Corn Belt is like John Bunyan's idyllic Beulah -- or a dark Gehenna. Corn is king in the U.S., a $25 billion business that occupies one-quarter of the nation's cropland. This year's crop will be 8.3 billion bu., the second highest in history. In the corn country, half of a farmer's income is from Government payments...
Robert Kennedy's children have been dogged by tragedy over the years, including the 1984 drug-overdose death of David Kennedy, then 28. But rather than dwelling on the dark side of the Kennedy myth, his eldest children are striving to live up to the responsibilities their father taught them. The first members of the third generation of Kennedys to seek political office, the brother and sister both face congressional primaries early this month, a rite of passage that, for the Kennedys, is the equivalent of confirmation or graduation in other families. Joe, 33, is running in Massachusetts' historic Eighth...
...best fireworks were saved for two special effects. At the end of all the singing and dancing, a scoreboard-sized Harvard 350th shield "blew up" into light, as fireworks exploded off a dark screen illuminating the logo...